Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

It’s also worth noting that social media, not even blogging, is not yet integrated into their website. In 2008, the WWF was on Myspace and likely utilizing a Facebook Group and YouTube Channel, but those tools had not yet become integrated into their website design. World Wildlife Fund :: Today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers. Other Metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

If your nonprofit has a good content strategy in place and understands the power of integrating all your nonprofit’s communications channels (website, email, Facebook, texting, etc.), There is also a science to social and mobile media. Social Network Followers. Other Metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Should you change your nonprofit’s Facebook profile image to show support of a hot political issue? Click here to follow us on Facebook. in our social media posts, and when it is necessary to get permission before publishing photos or videos of our constituents. social media Colleen Dunbar social networks'

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Social media strategists (ok, not all) love to discount email in favor of, you guessed it - social media. They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. For example, on Facebook, you can use Facebook Custom Audiences to target your email list members and further engage them on your advocacy campaigns.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Social media strategists (ok, not all) love to discount email in favor of, you guessed it - social media. They have deemed email a dying communications channel, which is absurd. For example, on Facebook, you can use Facebook Custom Audiences to target your email list members and further engage them on your advocacy campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Social media promotion of the event was in full swing. Thousands of Minnesota nonprofits and schools were lighting up Twitter and Facebook with posts about the need for support and requests for donations. As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Note from Beth: I’ve learned a lot about how to cultivate your professional network so it returns value by reading Porter Gale’s Your Network is Your Networth over the summer. Googling is great, but when I needed to know about content strategy, I tapped my network on Facebook. Copyblogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates. Be sure to promote your SnapChat on other social channels.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

” When you’ve just started to feel a tiny bit confident with Facebook and Twitter, new anxieties around niche channels start to set in. it an essential part of your social strategy. it an essential part of your social strategy. So how do you decide what social networks beyond the mainstays are for you?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. But, can you really raise money through social networks? Social Media Generation Profiles. Some interesting and helpful data emerged, including some specific information about how each generation approaches social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study. But if you are working with a network of similar nonprofits, doing a more formal benchmarking study can offer a lot of benefits. To date the survey has received 131 responses; 45% projects and 55% organizations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite NTC 2013 sessions. For example, what happens when you tie your Facebook posts to your online fundraising appeals? We all know that email (the original online social medium since 1979) is the main driver of value for multi-channel marketing for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

“We utilize social media, letting our families know about the campaigns. We do a lot of promotion on our Facebook page and send updates around the Teespring campaign through emails. Launch a custom campaign through your social network. Market - Promote the store through your marketing channels.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Joining the Safer Internet Day Twitter party.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time social media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. The tide in social media is currently turning against automation and I think that’s a good thing. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" billion in 2013. 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time new media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns. Pinterest (3 hour weekly): To pin or repin images twice daily and maintain your boards.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Winners will also be featured on You Tube's Spotlight Channel on April 12. You can have a look at current submissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. 5:30pm— on the bus ride home.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). So what’s a nonprofit to do? But it doesn’t have to be.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

That said, the following excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits will help your nonprofit get started with launching a mobile website or at the very least get the idea percolating and higher on your priority list for 2013. Link to Your Social Networking Profiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. As might be expected, mobile is playing an increasingly important part in the social media landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

One way I keep up with news and trends in social media is to curate social media research studies on Pinterest, share on my Facebook Page , and make sense of them here on my blog. One finding that made me go hmm … People tend to trust Facebook more than print newspapers for news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. For example, Facebook users share 684,478 pieces of content in a minute.

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